Re: Number of decimals

Hi Daz and Mike

Thanks for the response but BC will not help me. I apologise if my knowledge is not up to date or standard.

I am using Gui4Cli currently for all calculations as I can perform all calculations in Gui4Cli. Secondly I am a self studied programmer and do not know a lot about programming. I only know a little Basic. Here is an example and if I am off target please let me know.

Take the following example:
A = 1
B = 1.538

So A/B = 0.649772579597141...... and I want to round this off say to 8 decimals. I cannot do the following:

C = $($A/$B) = 0.649773 and send C to the external program, say BC, because Gui4Cli already rounded $C to 6 decimals. I can probably send $A/$B to BC (not tested yet as calculations are sometimes lenghty in statisics and not that easy to do it this way, if possible. (Will not be possible if one uses loops for example.)

In other words it seems to me that all calculations therefore have to be performed with an external program if you want rounding off to more than 6 decimals. Although Gui stands for Graphical User Interface that is not what I want. (The majority of other languages do have a Gui interface, but I like Gui4Cli because of its simplicity.

Why do I need so many decimals? This is to perform for example convergence problems of Functions, like probabilities and one will be suprised how quick Gui4Cli is.(My standards)

If Gui4Cli can give decimals to more than 6 or if a new command such as 'Set Decimals to $value' can be added it will be great but I do not know how easy or difficult it will be.

Regards

Frans





 

--- In [email protected], dazroo <daz4roo@...> wrote:
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> Here are a couple of links relating to Mike's post.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bc_programming_language
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> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bc.htm
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> 
> daz
>




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